Весенний салон поэтов: революция в категориях magnum opus
Spring salon of poets: The revolution in the context of magnum opus

Summary/Abstract: The article is concerned with the poems of Russian symbolist poets, published in post-revolutionary collection Spring Salon of Poets (1918), as well as the poems not included in this collection, but written directly after the February Revolution. Much attention is given to the main features of these poems: alchemical symbolism and imagery. Poets, who formerly had preached and predicted the mystical revolution, now participated in it in a mysterial way, they were now the participants of the revolution who were committing the magnum opus, in other words, they conjured the reality by word.

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